ERIC ED321700: Linking Institutional Characteristics, Educational Strategy pdf

ERIC ED321700: Linking Institutional Characteristics, Educational Strategy

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A study examined the role higher education institutions play through their educational strategy in supporting student retention. Educational strategy was defined as patterns of institutional practices designed to support undergraduate education, and the question posed was: Do the practices a college implements at the institutional level to support undergraduate education have anything to do with its ability to retain students? The practices were aggregated into strategy categories and compared to student retention at 528 four-year and comprehensive colleges and universities. Results indicated that although educational strategy added little to the predictability of retention in the total sample of institutions, it may be that it plays a critical role for those colleges and universities which make a concerted effort to counteract the low retention rates that would follow from their institutional characteristics. For less selective public institutions, the practice of engaging in a broad array of activities that support undergraduate education may be related to improved student retention rates.

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• Creator/s: ERIC
• Date: 1990-05
• Year: 1990
• Book Topics/Themes: ERIC Archive, Academic Persistence, Colleges, Dropout Prevention, Educational Strategies, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Literature Reviews, Predictor Variables, Research Design, Research Methodology, Student Attrition, Student College Relationship, Universities

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